Tragedy As 20 Communities Were Razed By Fire In Niger State

Niger State was thrown into mourning on Sunday as several persons were injured by fire on while attempting to scoop fuel from a broken pipeline at Dagbo-Pogo community of the sate.

One person was reported to
have died in the incident, while farmlands and houses belonging to more than 20 villages around the substation were razed.

Firefighters were, how
ever, seen battling to put out the blaze that erupted from the vandalised pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the police as well as that of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NISEMA) were at the scene of the incident.

Journalists were barred from entering the premises of the NNPC substation, a source gathered that the organisation is evacuating tankers to prevent an escalation of the situation.